Hayelom

[Yonas Nigussie @Yonigussie]

Tigray Genocidaire ‘Tired’ After Amhara Blowback

Tamagn—central architect of anti‑Tigrayan hate and key mobilizer of diaspora support for a war that killed around 1m Tigrayans—now claims he’s ‘tired,’ only because his dream of erasing #Tigray as a people and a nation failed. 1/

[Hayelom @Haye_21]

@felixprehn AI

[Addis Standard @addisstandard]

#𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐚: 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐫��𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 “𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞” 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟖𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #𝐓𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐲

Mekelle – A new report by the “Commission of Inquiry on Tigray Genocide (CITG)” has documented what it describes as “war-induced genocidal sexual and gender-based violence” committed against hundreds of thousands of women and girls across Tigray during the two-year Tigray war.

The report, released on Thursday, paints a harrowing picture of the systematic use of rape, sexual slavery, and other forms of gender-based violence as weapons of war.

According to the report, out of 481,201 women and girls surveyed, 286,250 suffered at least one form of gender-based violence, while 166,621 (58.2%) reported experiencing sexual violence. It further reveals that 152,108 (53.14%) survivors were raped — 70 percent of them gang-raped by between two and fifty perpetrators. The findings indicate extreme brutality. Some 21,117 women (7.4%) were held in prolonged sexual slavery.

Commissioner Yemane told Addis Standard that the findings were based on a door-to-door survey conducted using the ODK application and guided by the IASC GBV principles. “As the war-induced sexual violence was widespread throughout Tigray, universal screening was employed,” he said.

Yemane noted that Thursday’s publication presents only the main findings. “We have thousands of testimonies and stories that were not included in the current report, so there will be additional work and reports focused specifically on SGBV-related issues,” he confirmed.

https://t.co/p4KM4Aqoui

[Tigrai Media House @Tmhtvnews]

🇪🇹 OP-ED | Birhanu Jula Does Not Speak for Ethiopia

"When the guardians of the state become the voice of repression, the people must become the voice of the Constitution."

General Birhanu Jula, the highest-ranking military officer in Ethiopia, recently made disturbing remarks suggesting that Tigrians—an indigenous people and founding nation within Ethiopia—should “leave the country” if they demand their constitutional rights. His words, uttered without remorse or legal foundation, are not only dangerous, they are a direct attack on the multiethnic foundation of Ethiopia and an insult to all who believe in justice, federalism, and peace.

Let us respond clearly. Tigray is not a guest in Ethiopia. Tigray is a co-founder of the state. Tigrians are not foreigners. They are Ethiopian citizens whose blood, sacrifice, and resilience shaped the very republic that now threatens to exile them.

Article 39 of the Ethiopian Federal Constitution clearly enshrines the right to self-determination, including the right to secession, for all Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples. The Tigrian people—like the Oromo, Sidama, and other constituent groups—are not recipients of the state’s mercy, but rather equal stakeholders with constitutionally guaranteed rights. If the people of Tigray choose to exercise those rights, neither General Birhanu Jula nor any military authority has the legal or moral power to prevent them.

When Birhanu Jula mocks or threatens those who invoke the Constitution, he is not defending Ethiopia—he is dismantling it. His job is not to interpret political grievances, much less punish them. His duty, like that of all public servants, is to uphold the Constitution. If he cannot do that, then he has no business wearing the uniform of a national force.

Let’s speak honestly: The current Ethiopian military is no longer a neutral national army. It functions as an enforcement wing of the ruling Prosperity Party (PP)—targeting dissenting regions, enabling ethnic cleansing, and shielding itself from accountability.

What Birhanu Jula represents is not the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) of constitutional order, but a PP-aligned paramilitary structure—a force that uses state resources to silence constitutional demands, suppress ethnic identity, and erase historical memory.

When a military general publicly tells citizens to “get out” of their own country for seeking rights, the message is clear: You are either ruled or expelled.

That’s not federalism. That’s fascism.

Tigray is still reeling from war, siege, displacement, and the denial of return for hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs). Western Tigray remains occupied. War criminals walk free. And yet, it is the Tigrian people who are asked to stay silent?

General Birhanu should understand: Tigray is not begging for charity. Tigray is demanding justice, and doing so within the legal framework of the Ethiopian federation. That demand is not only legitimate—it is unavoidable.

If the price for asking to return home is to be told to “leave Ethiopia,” then it is not Tigray that is breaking away from the country, but the state that is breaking away from its citizens.

This is not just a Tigrian issue. Any Ethiopian who believes in the dignity of the Constitution should be alarmed. If Tigray’s rights can be denied today, so can Oromia’s tomorrow. So can the rights of Gambella, Sidama, or Benishangul. When the state becomes a club wielded against lawful demands, no region is safe.

Birhanu Jula’s speech is not simply dangerous because of what it says about Tigray. It’s dangerous because of what it says about the future of Ethiopia. Will this country be ruled by guns and threats, or by laws and dialogue?

The Road Forward

We, the people of Tigray and all federalist Ethiopians, offer not provocation—but principle. We believe in:

The return of all IDPs, immediately and unconditionally.

The restoration of territories, especially Western Tigray, to their rightful administrative owners.

The accountability of war criminals, regardless of uniform or title.

The right of every Nation and Nationality to self-determination, as codified in law.

A peaceful, constitutional dialogue for the future of Ethiopia, not threats from generals in fatigues.

Ethiopia does not belong to one party, one ethnicity, or one military. It belongs to its people, in all their diversity and dignity. Tigrians are not going anywhere. What must go, instead, is the notion that power excuses lawlessness.

General Birhanu, you may command guns, but you do not command legitimacy. The Constitution does.

[Yonas Nigussie @Yonigussie]

If Sehin Teferra Is a Feminist, Then Hitler Is the Pope

@SehinSehina’s denial of genocidal rape against #Tigray women makes her feminist claim a betrayal. Her call for “revolution” rings hollow without accountability—starting with the perpetrators & rape apologists like her. 1/

[Yonas Nigussie @Yonigussie]

Ethiopia Army Chief Threatens New Offensive In Tigray

Field Marshal Birhanu Jula accused #Tigray of failing to hand over heavy weapons and tanks. While urging Ethiopians to prepare for war, he issued a venomous ultimatum—warning Tigray not to dare instigate war a fourth time. 1/

[Stalin Gebreselassie @StalinTeklu]

Historic moment!

#Ethiopian National Defense Forces Chief, Field Marshal Birhanu Jula tells #Tigray State, member of the federation, to secede peacefully putting a precondition: Disarm every arms in hand, disband the Army that fought against the genocidal war on #Tigray (2020 -2022), don't talk about restoration of Tigray's territorial sovereignty as per the existing constitution, and the return of close to a million IDPs.

#Ethiopia sinking deeper.

[Wegahta Facts @WegahtaFacts]

#Tigray: A mother and daughter, two, gang-raped then forced to watch husband cut into pieces, a pregnant woman tortured to death in the most unimaginable way - report reveals full horrors of Tigray war's 120,000 rape victims https://t.co/BtI6qIrQgc

[Wegahta Facts @WegahtaFacts]

#Tigray: 'Soldiers found us and told us to undress'

During the war in Tigray, 120,000 women were victims of rape. More than two years since the end of the conflict, many survivors are still trying to overcome their trauma, with justice yet to be served. https://t.co/NEeprwXkaj

[Yonas Nigussie @Yonigussie]

‘Tigray War Pretext to Purge Ethnic Tigrayans form ENDF’

Taye Dendea, former Minister of Peace and senior member of PM Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party, has revealed that the 2020 war on #Tigray was deliberately initiated to remove ethnic Tigrayans from the Ethiopian national army.

[Tigrai Media House @Tmhtvnews]

How Abiy Ahmed’s Government Engineered Genocide in Tigray

A former senior official in Ethiopia’s federal government has publicly admitted that the 2020 war on Tigray was deliberately provoked to target and purge ethnic Tigrayans, lending powerful confirmation to long-standing accusations by Tigrayan leaders and international human rights groups.

Taye Dendea, a former Minister of Peace and senior member of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party, said in a recently published interview that the federal government intentionally initiated the war in order to single out and remove Tigrayans from the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF).

“Do you think it is TPLF who started the war? It is us who deliberately started it. We had no other way to single out ethnic Tigrayan members of the national army,” Taye said during an interview with Horn Observer, recorded shortly before his arrest.

He added that the attack on the army’s Northern Command, which the government had blamed on the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) to justify its military assault, was used as a pretext to justify a mass purge of Tigrayan soldiers and an ethnic campaign that soon extended far beyond the military.

Taye’s admission echoes a previously leaked audio recording of Brigadier General Tesfaye Ayalew, a senior ENDF commander, who was heard saying:

“We had to clean out our insides… Even if there may be good people among them, we can’t differentiate… so we excluded them from doing work. Now the security forces are completely Ethiopian.”

According to verified reports, more than 17,000 ethnic Tigrayan soldiers were disarmed, detained, or expelled from the army in the first weeks of the war. Simultaneously, ethnic Tigrayans across Ethiopia were subjected to widespread profiling, mass detentions, dismissals from public and private employment, and in many cases, disappearances.

Throughout the war, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and senior officials insisted the conflict was a “law enforcement operation” triggered by an alleged TPLF attack on Northern Command bases in November 2020. The government framed the military campaign as an effort to restore constitutional order.

However, human rights groups, UN investigators, and independent journalists have documented a very different reality one of systematic ethnic targeting, mass killings, sexual violence, forced starvation, and the displacement of millions of Tigrayans.

The government’s narrative now appears increasingly hollow in light of multiple recent revelations.

From the outset of the war, Tigrayan leaders and civil society maintained that:

. The war was a premeditated genocidal campaign, prepared months in advance.

. Tigrayans in the army, civil service, and society were systematically purged, imprisoned, or killed.

. The federal government used siege warfare, coordinated attacks with Eritrean and Amhara forces, and blocked humanitarian aid to deliberately inflict suffering on Tigrayan civilians.

.Independent investigations, including those by the United Nations and international NGOs, have consistently supported these claims.

Taye Dendea’s testimony reinforces calls for the international community to act decisively:

1. Demand full accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the conflict.

2. Insist on the safe and dignified return of displaced Tigrayans, especially those from Western Tigray, still under illegal occupation.

3. Push for full implementation of the Pretoria Agreement, which remains stalled due to the Ethiopian government’s lack of compliance.

Taye’s admission provides a stark reminder of the true nature of the war on Tigray a war driven not by constitutional concerns but by ethnic hatred and political calculation.

As millions of Tigrayans remain displaced and waiting for justice, and as the Pretoria peace process falters, the world can no longer look away. The victims deserve recognition, justice, and restoration.

[Yonas Nigussie @Yonigussie]

Ethiopia Continues Its Tigray Genocide By Other Means

Acc to ESS (2023), Somali and #Tigray had similar populations 6.66m and 6.84m, respectively. Yet, the Federal Gov't allocated only ETB 18.9Bn to war-ravaged Tigray—far less than Somali’s ETB 31.4Bn.

🖇️https://t.co/6WFwLgyP6l

[👑 Solomon @TigraySelalia]

Reconciliation without justice is erasure.
Peace without acknowledgment is betrayal.

If you want healing in Ethiopia, justice must come first
These survivors are not collateral. They are witnesses.
@Keir_Starmer @CanadaFP
#JusticeForTigray
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[huluf wedi raya @WediRaya7]

Tigray’s largest hospital collapsed under siege. Dialysis stopped, surgeries canceled, children starved. Medicine became contraband.
@WHO @UNHumanRights @UNReliefChief @_AfricanUnion @StateDept
This was deliberate. #NameItGenocide #Tigray @WediRaya7 https://t.co/kyXpqB5FOy

[huluf wedi raya @WediRaya7]

Doctors at Ayder Hospital in Tigray reused gloves, gave expired meds, & watched patients die from treatable conditions—while unpaid. This wasn’t mismanagement. It was war policy.
@UNHumanRights @EU_Commission @StateDept @_AfricanUnion
#TigrayGenocide @Wedi https://t.co/kyXpqB5FOy

[huluf wedi raya @WediRaya7]

Tigray’s genocide survivors spoke. Now their testimonies are LOCKED AWAY.
Justice delayed = justice denied.
@UN @UNHumanRights @POTUS @vonderleyen @ymahmoudali
#JusticeForTigray #UnlockTheTruth @WediRaya7 https://t.co/kyXpqB5FOy

[👑 Solomon @TigraySelalia]

Dear @realDonaldTrump @Keir_Starmer @EmmanuelMacron @_FriedrichMerz @GiorgiaMeloni,
100s thousands of #Tigrayans were raped, starved, and massacred. The war is over, but the silence is deadly.
Where is your moral leadership?
#UpholdPretoriaAgreement

[ሶolኣkl🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️ @solakl44]

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Tigrayan survivors entrusted evidence to the Tigray Genocide Commission. Today, those files are hidden
🛑 If this data is buried, justice dies with it
We DEMAND independent,transparent investigation—NOW.
@GermanyUN @ItalyMFA @StateDept
#JusticeForTigray
https://t.co/TSyUGTa5fX